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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
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Subject: Re: SCO market share
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Date: 14 Dec 93 17:09:09 GMT
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References: <1993Dec11.012449.99@kf8nh.wariat.org> <2ec989$knu@vanbc.wimsey.com> <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk>
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In article <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk>,
Nigel Whitfield <nigel@stonewall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <2efuku$4vj@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
>>A small, struggling company with
>>good desktop publishing software for Unix systems might consider some kind
>>of joint distribution with one of the even smaller companies that distributes
>>packaged Linux or *BSD systems.  Get a couple of companies together with a
>>good product in each of the 3 catagories above and who knows what would
>>happen.  Or maybe not...
>
>Well, as the editor of a computer magazine, I wouldn't begin to
>consider producing the magazine on a non-commercial platform. There is
>great free software out there, but if anything goes wrong at a
>critical moment, I have to know that I can ring someone up and get
>them to sort it out.
>
>Ultimately, in a situation like that, the economics work in favour of
>the commercial solutions.

Unless one accepts the (IMHO ludicrous) assertion that a commercial OS vendor
would within the space of time presented by a "critical moment" fix its OS
were that broken (as commerical OSes clearly are just as often as free ones,
if not more), you whole article is logically inconsistent.
-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                           tls@panix.COM
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
  objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
  plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud